A fear of failure can put people off iterative trial-and-error disciplines, such as engineering. In the past year, a team of locals have sought to better understand this fear in children, by undertaking research (with evaluation designed by UWE Bristol academics) within Bristol primary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bristol performer – Kid Carpet<\/a> \u2013 led the “Epic Fail” project, with local engineers and representatives from Bristol young person mental health social movement – Off the Record<\/a>, run workshops at Victoria Park, May Park<\/a> and Begbrook primary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each school residency lasted two weeks and included workshops for Year Five classes in Bridge Building, Fantastic Inventions, Wellbeing, Un-uselessness and Song Writing. As well as some creative ways to capture children’s thoughts about failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bridge building workshops were led by engineer Rachel Kirkwood<\/a> – a member of UWE Bristol’s Women Like Me<\/a> engineer mentoring programme. Rachel is featured in the video below, produced to celebrate the Epic Fail project in lieu of the live performances cancelled because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n